Yep, this week goes down in History as the week we got all lawyered
up. Well, we can't afford lawyers, actually, so it's more like "all
paralegaled up" I guess. Gotta sue a guy that owes us $7,700 and
change. And who doesn't want to pay. And that sum is too much to
go to Small Claims Court, so we've got to go to Justice of the
Peace Court. In other words, please donate some money, Dear Reader,
not only do we have BILLS, we now have paralegals and filing fees
and service fees and this and that and the other thing. What a
Royal Pain it all is.

But enough about that. It's time for a big THANK YOU! to those of
you Readers who have stepped up and donated some ca$h money towards
support of this Reader Supported Publication! As noted above, we're
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Letters to the Editorfrom L. Neil Smith, Sean Gabb, and Albert Perez
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What Part of "One Dollar Gas" Did You Fail to Understand?by L. Neil Smith
Nine months ago, in September of 2006, I presented
the Libertarian Partyboth the national and state organizationswith
a handsome gift. What I gave them was an issue, and a new, uniquely libertarian
way of addressing it, that would attract more attention to the sacred
cause of individual liberty we share, than anything else we've ever
done.
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An Exercise in Logicby Albert Perez
Remember the argument supporters of gun control used
to make? The one that started "Why would any decent, honest person want
a (weapon they wanted banned)?" This was a good rhetorical trick. It
defined those of us that wanted to own a (fill in the blank) as bad
people unless they could prove they needed (fill in the blank) for
reasons the hoplophobe approved.
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How Should Free People Behave?by Dick Wetherbee
I have gone wrong from the start. Who has any right to
tell a free person anything? OK, no murder, assault, theftgive it a bit
of thought and you'll think of a few others. What about annoying your
neighbors? I like dogs. I have 3 large ones. They don't bite, they rarely
bark, they come, sit and stay on command but they are big and they scare
some people.
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On Immigration: Take Our Freedoms, Please!by Jonathan David Morris
I'm glad immigration is in the news these days. I love
when people start discussing immigration. No other topic does a better job
of popping the veins in Bill O'Reilly's forehead.
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Freedom, If You Mean Itby Ulrich Biele
These days, a friend asked me for advice. He is
considerably younger than I am and maybe this difference in age made him
think I was qualified to give him an answer. He is involved with a girl
and contemplates about going steady with her or maybe even marrying her.
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